Dystopian Literature quotes
here's a thread with relevant quotes from old dystopian fiction. Read all these books while you're quarantined.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov, The Foundation (1951)
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952)
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself...
What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.” ― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops (1909)
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” -Asimov, The Foundation
“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.” ― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1924)
“After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.” ― H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (1921)
“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth." ― H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” ― George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952)
“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself...
What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.” ― E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops (1909)
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” -Asimov, The Foundation
“Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.” ― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1924)
“After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.” ― H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes (1921)
“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before—it commands earth and sea and sky. All power is for those who can handle wealth." ― H.G. Wells, The Sleeper Awakes
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